Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

oh shit ed III thx for the heads up on alphaville expiring, now i must make time before it vanishes

Is the "Netflix nerd" a new type, checking their list for expiry dates, etc?
Do you think Netflix is "fucking cool"?

Do you think about where Netflix movies go when they expire, or is it too awful to contemplate?

I really wish Corman's World was on this.

"you can't really go wrong" otm honestly.

yeah, Army of Shadows was rather overrated when it finally got salvaged about 5 years ago; it's good, but far from his best.

http://www.theyshootpictures.com/melvillejeanpierre.htm

bob rules. i forgot i even wrote a <a href="http://www.montrealmirror.com/ARCHIVES/2002/091202/film3.html";>review</a> of it once!

facepalm

Do you think about where Netflix movies go when they expire, or is it too awful to contemplate?

― hbo with a shotgun (admrl), Wednesday, March 14, 2012 3:35 PM (36 minutes ago)

obv what's on instant is a small portion of what's available, but it serves a similar function to the (extinct) local video store. limited selection, but I can watch something *right now*.

sure, I could watch murder by decree at any time, but I've wanted to see that movie since missing it in 1979 when it played for a single week at the downtown theater. if a netflix expiry date gave me the prod to finally watch it, what's the big d? I've watched films for dumber motivations before.

yeah, i reckon that if a movie's in my Instant Queue then it's there b/c i want to see it. and if i know that it's going to expire relatively soon and i have time to watch it before it's gone, then i'd like to know that. nothing about "being cool" at all.

also, some Netflix Instant movies aren't available on DVD -- only Instant.

just wanna reiterate that peep show series 1-7 are on instant. I have series 1-5 on DVD, and it was great to be able to blow through 6 and 7 in the last couple weeks. greatest sitcom ever.

watched the first few episodes of peep show and did not like it. does it improve? otherwise might just not be for me.

did you watch the one where they go to the party straight from the grocery store, that one is pretty amazing

i think that was the last one i watched and it had its moments...

peep show is amazing, we're blasting through it now.
re: melville, they're all good -- last one I watched on instant was Dirty Money (which I think has a diff French title). Delon / Deneueve, awesome helicopter/train heist scene.

melville is a genius.

he is! the delon movies are all kinda blending together into one movie, but it's a great movie.

yeah and who cares cuz you get to look at delon the whole time.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-G9DYDGkpljc/TlSfF0zNFwI/AAAAAAAANtU/Y8sKpVzfyNc/s400/alain-delon-1.jpg

Peep Show is one of the best sitcoms currently (sort of, as it won't be back for a bit yet) on television, easily on par with Parks and Recreation and Community. Maybe a bit better, even?

And that's coming from someone who didn't really "get it" at first and was on the fence for several episodes. Looking back, I don't know what I wasn't "getting", as it's brilliant from the start (with a brief dip into something slightly less than brilliance during series 4).

i'm all about Peep Show right now, i couldn't understand some people not being into the sometimes brutal awkwardness, though

could*

cool. i'll give it another shot.

the first episode of "peep show" has the stuff about Stalingrad so if anyone doesn't "get it" I doubt they ever will.

peep show is fucking great but it gets better halfway through the first season once all that bullshit POV camera stuff gets finished.

I love Peep Show and I've tried to get friends to watch it. One close friend makes me a little crazy b/c she is averse to British TV shows b/c the people look weird, e.g., David Mitchell. Also, Robert Webb's teeth. Actually, Mitchell's teeth too, I think.

I never thought Webb's teeth were that bad, but I Googled "Robert Webb teeth" and I guess other people think they are awful? Some Brits on a message board said both their teeth are "grim" and "crap." I mean, they're sort of wonky, but not gross or rotten.

i like peep show okay but i don't love it. maybe i would love it if i lived in south london. i don't love the cast which is most of my problem. and i'm a little burnt out on cringe-humor too. though i do think the office temp show i saw on netflix was really funny, so maybe it just depends. the one with the stoner office temps. basically an american peep show.

i was gonna watch a fancy klassic movie that morbz would love last night and then, of course, i just ended up watching episodes of breakout kings. i'm predictable.

what's wrong with his teeth? they look fine to me. suitable for his face, real. what more do people want?

Webb's are sort of jagged and spaced far apart and not super white. Mitchell's are just crooked.

People's increasing repulsion towards every possible physical "flaw" really, really creeps me out.

Another twenty years of this and we're just going to have to content ourselves with an entertainment industry populated entirely by androids.

I know. She's not snobby at all about people's looks IRL, but she's very used to Hollywood's standards for appearances on TV and movies (e.g., "Ugly" Betty is not in the least ugly).

Also I think she didn't care for the really real sets - the kinda dirty bathroom looks like a typical real kinda dirty bathroom, which is grosser than an OTT dirty bathroom that you might see on TV. If that makes sense.

never change, scott

i like peep show okay but i don't love it. maybe i would love it if i lived in south london. i don't love the cast which is most of my problem.

yeah if you don't get charmed by these horrible horrible people peep show is prolly a slog. but even though the social discomfort angle is kind of played out as a thing, I like how far and long they've gone with it. one of the last episodes of series 7 has a horrific, stomach churning christmas day dinner, can't even say it was funny but it is unforgettable. the show's so committed to dwelling on cowardice, delusion, and self-sabotage.

watched a little bit of the 1st season again last night, I really enjoy the grimy grimness and stupid life details... like mark fighting the desk drawer at his office with a neurotic combination of frustration and complacency:

(mark struggles to pull the key out)
Why don't I get this fixed? Why don't I ever get this fucking thing fixed?! Every night it's f...
(key comes out)
Ah, it always comes out eventually, fuck it.

haha ya

It's a south london thing

Yeah, it took me a while to get past all of the region-specific references to things like stuck keys and closet frottage, but I persevered.

... "closet frottage"?

I now see the UK in a whole new light

bullshit POV camera stuff
isn't this carried on throughout the whole series? maybe it gets more subtle, but i think every shot is supposed to be POV.

the first few episodes (and the first especially) are particularly bad though, like "breaking the waves" bad

I was surprised by the proportion of references to American culture to region-specific ones. In UK The Office and Ab Fab I felt like even with a better than average American's knowledge of UK culture, I was missing quite a few references. I wondered if they were trying to make it more American-accessible.

the first few episodes (and the first especially) are particularly bad though, like "breaking the waves" bad

― Wesley Crusher: Teenage F#ck Machine (forksclovetofu), Thursday, March 15, 2012 3:53 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is wrong in a number of interesting ways

I like the massive fisheye closeups of the first few eps - enter the pit of sarlacc, little crisps!

they started throwing more establishing shots into later eps, maybe because this

Producer Andrew O'Connor cited the POV filming style as the reason for the low ratings: "It made it feel original and fresh and got it commissioned for a second series, but it stopped it from being a breakout hit and stopped it finding a bigger audience."[35] Bain and Armstrong agreed that the POV style stopped it from becoming mainstream.

but I'm glad they never abandoned the POV stuff

United Red Army (overlong and starts slowly and confusingly, but still well worth it your time--definitely of a piece with Carlos and Baader Meinhoff Complex and Che.)

just finished still bill, in part due to bill withers thread revival this week. recommended.

my favorite movie theater's twitter feed informs me that the 1990 tv movie leona helmsley: the queen of mean is now streaming.

http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Leona_Helmsley_The_Queen_of_Mean/70108619?trkid=2361637